[MPlayer-dev-eng] [PATCH] bzero to memset

[Diego Biurrun]

Guillaume Poirier writes:
> 
> On Sun, 23 Jan 2005 21:43:16 +0100, Diego Biurrun <diego at biurrun.de> wrote:
> > Guillaume Poirier writes:
> > >
> > > I do think a great deal of people are lookning forward to be able to
> > > compile MPlayer with gcc-4 for it's quite a fast compiler, which is
> > > not the case for gcc-3.x, so many people still use gcc-2.95.x...
> > 
> > Do you have some numbers?
> 
> Unfortunately, I don't have some with "just" MPlayer, for it's not
> possible yet to compile it completely....
> 
> It just "feels" faster, just like 2.95 seems faster (and IS) on my machine...
> 
> But I guess I could compare with some files such as
> "motion_estimation.c" (from the top of my head) which takes some time
> to compile. It's maybe not a good exemple for it contains a great deal
> of asm, I'm not a compiler expert, I don't know what is supposed to
> take lots of time in a compiler (I'd guess register allocations as
> gcc-4.0's reg. allocator seem very experimental).
> 
> So, let me find the time to send a nice bench of some files in a day of two.

Maybe you can just remove the files that do not build from the
Makefiles.  Off the top of my head I just remember unimportant files
failing.

Diego